X-ray intensifying screen

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• intensifying screen — n a fluorescent screen placed next to an X ray photographic film in order to intensify the image initially produced on the film by the action of X rays * * * a thin sheet of celluloid or other substance coated with a finely divided substance… …   Medical dictionary

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